Overall Rating Gold
Overall Score 74.30
Liaison Joséanne Bélanger-Gravel
Submission Date Sept. 2, 2022

STARS v2.2

Polytechnique Montréal
AC-1: Academic Courses

Status Score Responsible Party
Complete 14.00 / 14.00 Joséanne Bélanger-Gravel
Sustainability Advisor
Sustainable Development Office
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Part 1. Sustainability course offerings

Figures required to calculate the percentage of courses offered by the institution that are sustainability course offerings:
Undergraduate Graduate
Total number of courses offered by the institution 279 686
Number of sustainability-focused courses offered 10 60
Number of sustainability-inclusive courses offered 43 109

Percentage of courses that are sustainability course offerings:
23.01

Part 2. Sustainability course offerings by department

Total number of academic departments that offer courses:
7

Number of academic departments with sustainability course offerings:
7

Percentage of academic departments with sustainability course offerings:
100

Documentation

A copy of the institution’s inventory of its sustainability course offerings and descriptions:
Do the figures reported above cover one, two, or three academic years?:
Three

A brief description of the methodology used to complete the course inventory :
The data consider courses that are available as of September 2021 over a three-year planning. Five criteria were selected when looking through the entire course descriptions for the sustainability-focused courses.

All environmental courses (water treatment, soil remediation etc.) are considered as "sustainability" courses. Courses regarding environmental engineering, renewable energy or green technologies were considered as sustainability courses, as they are central to the contribution that engineers can make to sustainability in their professional practice.

When the title of the course clearly states the intent (Sustainable Manufacturing, Renewable Energy etc.), it is also automatically considered as a "sustainability course".

When less obvious, a more thorough analysis was performed according to the following learning objectives (knowledge - competencies):
-Know sustainable development principles
-Know impacts of engineering on the environment and society
-Know how to use cleaner technologies
-Be able to integrate sustainability tools or criteria when solving engineering -problems
-Be able to involve stakeholders

A new keywords search Excel tool was used for the sustainability-inclusive courses. Various tests and validations have been made to ensure the accuracy of the tool.

A final validation was made by comparing results from previous years to the 2021-2022 results.

How were courses with multiple offerings or sections counted for the figures reported above?:
Each course was counted as a single course regardless of the number of offerings or sections

A brief description of how courses with multiple offerings or sections were counted:
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Optional Fields 

Website URL where information about the sustainability course offerings is available:
Additional documentation to support the submission:
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Data source(s) and notes about the submission:
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